Lesbian New Zealand

Auckland Pride Festival

10-26 February 2017

The dates for the main events are now on the Festival website - including the
Pride Gala, Big Gay Out, Same Same But Different Writer’s Festival, Heroic Garden Festival,
and the Auckland Pride Parade.

The organisers are calling for registrations of social and cultural events by 12 December.

Wellington Pride Festival | Tū whakahīhī e Te Whanganui-ā-Tara

3rd - 19 March 2017

Out Wellington Inc have announced the dates for the Wellington Pride Festival | Tū
whakahihi e Te Whanganui-ā-Tara 2017. The Festival will run from 3rd - 19th March,
culminating with the Pride Parade and Out in the Park celebrations on Saturday 18th
March ... more on facebook. They welcome offers from
organisations and groups to organise events for the Festival.

Wanganui's own 'Flock of Lesbians' -
Regular meetings for coffee, activities, support, ideas sharing, and a laugh email: email wangaflock@outlook.co.nz
and join in the loop. Lesbians visiting Wanganui welcome to email and we'll meet for coffee.

Ms Q Manawatu meets the first Friday of every month for drinks.
Are you interested in being involved in the womens LBGT community? For more information
and confidential support they offer a 24 hour phone line 022 451 6617 or
email malgra_lesbian_support@hotmail.com

Kiwi media online

NZ Lesbian-themed short film Tits on a Bull available to
view for free online

The NZ lesbian-themed short film Tits on a Bull has been released to
view for free online. It was shown during
the 2015 NZ International Film Festival, and film maker Tim Worrall was
interviewed for GayNZ.com by Jacqui Stanford.
Subsequent to Jacqui's article the film has been screened at a number of prestigious
LGBTQ festivals internationally including: Framline40, The Iris Prize, Inside Out,
Outfest, as well as the Side by Side LGBT film festival in Leningrad, Russia.

Pot Luck web series

Pot Luck - our very own web series - follows the
lives of three Wellington friends as they negotiate friendship, family and finding love
at their weekly pot luck dinners. Catch up on the episodes you missed!! Also available on TVNZ On demand

PrideNZ audio archive

PrideNZ.com is a community website exploring the voices
and opinions of Aotearoa New Zealand's rainbow communities through over 600 audio
recordings of interviews and of local LGBTI events. Plus there are transcripts, images
and video available - some historically important. More recordings are added regularly.

Support Kiwi groups supporting LGBTIQ youth

Let's support the groups and organisations that support the youth in our communities
- they are always short of $$$ for their valuable work. Most are registered charities
and have Donate pages on their websites.

InsideOUT
is a national organisation that works to make Aotearoa a safer place for all young people of diverse genders and
sexualities to live and be in.

Im
Local - a project of Rainbow Youth that helps
queer and gender diverse youth all over the country to feel valued, recognised and
supported in their local communities. They focus on getting information into smaller
centres and rural areas. I'm Local has a give a little we can support.

Naming
New Zealand is an organisation to help transgender, gender diverse and intersex youth
with updating their identity documents to correctly reflect their sex and gender.

TRANZform is a support group for
youth who identify as transgender, fa'afafine, whakawahine, tangata ira tane, intersex,
two-spirits, genderqueer, non-gendered, questioning and their allies.

traNZgear is a group of
trans* people and supporters dedicated to providing cheap items essential to the
day to day living of transgender people throughout New Zealand.

curious.org.nz a resource for young people to share
feelings and experiences about sexuality and gender identity with the aim of enhancing
connectedness and supporting them to promote diversity in their communities.

Rainbow Youth - an Auckland based organisation
that provides support, information and advocacy and education for queer young people and their
families. They have released an accessible educational resource which can be viewed online or
downloaded.

A kit created by the School of Nursing at The University of Auckland in collaboration with a working
group drawn from the aged care sector and the Auckland LGB community is available at dropbox. It a
short video, training workbooks for facilitators and participants, and guidelines on caring for LGB residents.
See also the Silver Rainbow
faceboook group.